Crixivan

The cocktails consist of a combination of three or more drugs, usually including protease inhibitors such as Crixivan, produced by Merck, and other antiretrovirals, such as AZT, produced by Glaxo Wellcome.

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The drug was Crixivan, by Merck, and it, and other protease inhibitors changed the game and have kept so many of my friends alive.

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Cynara Chatman-Dillon, 43, a management consultant in Oakland, Calif., describes her four months on Crixivan: "" It felt like I was dying. ''

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Merck and the clinic doctors say the only promise was that the company would try to offer more drugs after the study, and the company did agree to provide Crixivan for five years.

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Then Johnson began taking a cocktail of Crixivan, AZT and 3TC -- 22 pills a day, dispensed in a tackle box.

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And she's hoping for a new cocktail, hoping that her experience with Crixivan didn't leave her with "" cross-resistance '' to the other protease inhibitors.

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The participants received a triple cocktail of Crixivan and two other drugs made by competitors.

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A major victory came in 1997, when the U.S. drug company Merck was looking for places to test whether its drug Crixivan was more effective when taken two or three times a day.

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The new era in treatment started last December, when Hoffman-La Roche introduced saquinavir (brand name Invirase), and it took off in March with the arrival of Merck's indinavir (Crixivan) and Abbott Laboratories 'ritonavir (Norvir).

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Should they have priority in the next lottery since Merck is already guaranteeing them five years of Crixivan, the most expensive component of the cocktail?

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